Watching Russian Air & Sea Activity

[AdamG]

A somewhat breathless assessment -

Since taking 51 vessels from Ukraine without resistance, Russia now has more warships than America. The U.S. Navy has 283 active vessels, and Russia had 280 warships until last week, when it began taking over Ukrainian vessels stationed in Crimea.

The last of Ukrainian’s 17 military vessels stationed in Crimea not already taken by Russia, the minesweeper Cherkassy, was sabotaged by its crew Wednesday after several unsuccessful Russian capture attempts. Tuesday night, gunfire, explosions and smoke were seen and heard coming from the vessel during a Russian attempt. Ten Ukrainian vessels, not stationed in Crimea, still remain in the possession of Ukraine.

Russia has also gained navy officers. About 12,000 of Ukraine’s 15,450 navy personnel were stationed in Crimea when Russia invaded at the end of last month. Most of the officers have joined the Russian navy or resigned, according to representatives of the Russian government.

The 204th Tactical Aviation Brigade, based at the Balbek airbase, had 39 Mig-28 fighters, which were seized by Russia in the early days of their invasion. Three hundred surface-to-air missiles were seized at the Fiolent airbase, as well.

A representative of the Russian navy gave an interview Tuesday. According to Yuri Borisov, deputy defense minister for the Russian Navy, the Russian navy will have 40 more warships, including submarines and support vessels, set up for combat duty this year. Borisov stated the increase would make “resolution of the whole range of tasks that the Navy assumed [and] become more combat effective in any parts of oceans in the world,” as reported by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS.

http://guardianlv.com/2014/03/russia...ne-navy-ships/

[JMA]

A somewhat breathless assessment -

http://guardianlv.com/2014/03/russia...ne-navy-ships/

Yes, this adds to the list of Russian actions which the US and the EU find if not acceptable then tolerable. Quite disgraceful.

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A somewhat breathless assessment -



http://guardianlv.com/2014/03/russia...ne-navy-ships/
The 204th Tactical Aviation Brigade, based at the Balbek airbase, had 39 Mig-28 fighters, which were seized by Russia in the early days of their invasion. Three hundred surface-to-air missiles were seized at the Fiolent airbase, as well.

OMG Mig-28s. I hope we can get Maverick and Cougar with their F-14 Tomcats back on active duty to take them out.

[JMA]

OMG Mig-28s. I hope we can get Maverick and Cougar with their F-14 Tomcats back on active duty to take them out.

Infantile comment.

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Infantile comment.

Are you sure it wasn't puerile, kindisch or kinderagtige?

At least my post commented somewhat humorously on the quality of the fact checking done by some of the sources cited here.

BTW, here's a link for you:The Hunting of the Snark (he said with tongue firmly in cheek).

[JMA]

Are you sure it wasn't puerile, kindisch or kinderagtige?

At least my post commented somewhat humorously on the quality of the fact checking done by some of the sources cited here.

BTW, here's a link for you:The Hunting of the Snark (he said with tongue firmly in cheek).

Well OK then... a puerile sense of humour. Some people never grow up.

Instructors at any Officer School would typically observe for those who have that character flaw of laughing at expense of people rather than with them. Some fatally flawed individuals do however manage to sneak through though. This is a pity.

[davidbfpo]

AdamG posted in part:

The 204th Tactical Aviation Brigade, based at the Balbek airbase, had 39 Mig-28 fighters, which were seized by Russia in the early days of their invasion. Three hundred surface-to-air missiles were seized at the Fiolent airbase, as well.

I read somewhere only four were in flying / operational condition.

[davidbfpo]

I thought I'd posted these two news items from hitherto unknown news resource.

The paratroopers from the 98th Paratroopers Division in Ivanovo were dropped over the island of Kotelny on Friday in a show of strength in Arctic conditions.....As previously reported, the Russian Northern Fleet late 2013 took major efforts in the reopening of the Temp airfield at Kotelny....The Island of Kotelny in the period 1933-1993 housed a research station and military base.

Link:http://barentsobserver.com/en/securi...-we-come-17-03

I am sure this is the island AdamG posted on three days ago.

OK, not Russia, but Norway's presence in the Barents Sea continues:http://barentsobserver.com/en/securi...-spyship-17-03